Project Manager

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Sharad More +1-919-***-**** ****.******.*@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharadmore

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

15+ years of professional experience in Information Technology. Experience as dedicated and result oriented Project Management professional. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player, possessing excellent communication, organizational and analytical capabilities. Devises innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges. Eager to advance business goals through careful team management.

An effective leader with proven abilities in leading larger team size and keep a highly energetic environment by increasing collaboration across team.

EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Computer Applications, India, 2007

Bachelor of Computer Science, India, 2004

Project Management Professional PMP® - 2023

Certified Scrum Master CSM® - 2022

SKILLS

Business Analysis, System Analysis

Strategic Planning

Risk Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Vendor Management

Stakeholder Communications

Data Governance

Operations & Change Management

Budgeting and Forecasting

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Agile Methodology, Waterfall Methodology

Scrum Master

PTS, JIRA, Confluence

Data Analyst & Reporting Analyst

ETL - Ab Initio, Talend, DataStage

BI Tools –Tableau, Power BI, Business Objects

Java, Java Scripts, Application Programming Interface (API)

SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, DB2

EXPERIENCE

1. Citi Bank Tampa, FL Sept 2021 – Current

Role: Project Manager & Scrum Master Project: Common Data Acquisition (CDA)

Manage numerous Key Initiative projects annually as part of Change the Bank (CTB) and Run the Bank (RTB) programs.

Huge achievement for CDA 2.0 Initiative as part of CTB which cut down the daily processing time to provision data to downstream system. Implemented new Data Infrastructure components for PPNR/Balance sheet forecasting with capabilities to support data acquisition and provisioning of source data, data transformation, aggregation and data quality controls required for PPNR model execution.

Applied extensive expertise in System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and Agile project management techniques to manage multiple projects.

Collaborate on the requirements, defined the scope, identified deliverables, and created the Work Breakdown Structure and project plan with detailed schedule.

Experience in developing and managing project plans, documenting risks, issues, and contingency plans.

Estimated the duration and cost of project activities using parametric and bottom-up estimation techniques.

Sets and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays, then realigns schedules and expectations.

Prepare project charters, management plans, risk management, communications, governance plans and schedules

Manage the development efforts and complete execution phase to track down the progress of the projects to be within planned budget and timeline.

Involved in verification and validation of the code version during QA/UAT phase of the SDLC project.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint Review, Demo and sprint retrospectives.

Manage multiple scrum teams of each size ~10 to deliver the planned deadlines for the projects.

Protect scrum team from outside distractions, impediments, team conflicts to meet the sprint goals and deliverables

Regular analysis of burndown charts and other portfolio planning tools to understand what gets built and at what cadence.

Operate as the administrator of the scrum board. Ensure that cards are up to date and the scrum tools like Jira software are working well.

Implement robust performance tracking mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the progress and quality of work across the entire team.

2. Citi Bank Tampa, FL Jul 2014 – Aug 2020

Role: Project Manager - BI Project: Legal Global Reporting (LGRU)

Leadership of a vast team with both onshore and offshore resources providing comprehensive services to the client and ensuring smooth execution.

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Maintain and support different projects in Development, SIT, UAT and Production environments across different regions.

Working on different new initiatives, existing project enhancement for various reporting projects and doing requirement gathering along with providing technical solution for Legal business reports.

SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 to MicroStrategy 10.5, 10.11 migration projects were one great milestone to achieve in this project. Around 7-8 reporting projects along with 250+ reports were in scope of this entire migration. The complete project was executed with good coordination and well planning without impacting the business users and stakeholders with their reporting needs.

Collaborated with Technical team and QA to review requirements of the end users and prove effective solutions.

New GRU Data Warehouse was developed and implemented in production, which now allows business users with more flexibility and less dependency on the source application system while doing reporting. The data was pulled from Application source system through Extraction, Transformation; loading methodology to load into new flattened relational data structure. Later, along with standard reports a new logical reporting layer was built to provide business user flexibility for their own on demand reporting needs.

Coordinate and perform review session with the team for reports and make sure reports are ready for system testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) as per the business requirements.

Work with business to perform User Interface testing (UAT) just ahead of the final production deployment, build test cases and perform testing as required with business users and stake holders. Also make them understand how requirement is come up with solution by presenting them.

Coordinate the UAT and Production deployment and seek all the required approvals and signoffs before and after the implementation of each project.

3. Fifth Third Bank Cincinnati, OH Nov 2009 - Jul 2014 Role – Project Lead & Sr Developer Project - Data Warehouse Business Intelligence (DWBI)

Partnered with business customers to clearly develop and communicate strategic vision and product roadmap.

Translated epics into stories to enable development teams to understand scope and prepare user stories to support iterative delivery of product.

Operate on project estimations, resource planning and executing the project within expected deadline within budget.

Participation in New business initiatives from initial phase of planning and forecasting.

Oversee the Development, testing validation efforts and complete execution phase to track down the progress.

Project were executed with effective coordination and Lean planning, achieving excellent customer satisfaction scores.

SAP BO – WEBi, DESKi, Xcelsius, Designer using these tools have built reports/dashboards for fulfilling business requirements

Based on the Data mart, designed and developed a business objects universe using custom hierarchies, Solved Join Path problems like loops, Fan Traps and Chasm Traps using alias and Contexts, Used Aggregate awareness, and Index awareness for performance tuning.

Created several canned as well as adhoc customer reports and worked on requirement for designing and development of complex reports. Generated analytical reports using Slice and Dice, Drill down, Cross Tab, complex formula using

@Functions and @Prompts, use of graph and charts.

Developed reports from multiple data providers and used merged dimensions. Report link is implemented using Open document functionality so multiple reports can be interlinked within each other logically.

Supervise the team in optimizing the existing code in production and make team follow new learning into the new developments. Ex: Query Tuning using Aggregate Awareness, Short Cut joins, Custom SQL at Universe level for faster retrieval of data and better reporting performance. Worked with DBAs to perform tuning at Table level by creating index.

Highly Interactive Dashboard completely based on dynamic user input and varying amount of information to analyze without limitations being provided to the user.

4. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, India May 2007 - Nov 2009 Role: BI Consultant

Involved in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for business objects universes and reports.

Created Universe level objects and measures using the business rules provided.

Setting up the security levels to the users in universe module like row level and object level security.

Designed and developed the Functional Analysis and Technical Design like Joins, Shortcut Joins, Contexts, and Cardinalities of the tables and structures of the Universe.

Importing and Exporting the Universes to repository to make it accessible to end users.

Extensively used QAAWS to retrieve the SAP BI data from the universe objects.

Developed WEBI reports in Business Objects XI R3.1and Xcelsius Dashboards in Xcelsius 2008.

Developed multiple dashboards so that the user can navigate from one dashboard to the other.

Expertise in developing drill down reports and hyperlinked reports.

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